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Sudan army drone attack on Darfur kills 35, rights group says

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 426 words · By AFP
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What to know about Sudan army drone attack on Darfur kills 35, rights group says

Sudan army drone attack on Darfur kills 35, rights group says Tens of thousands have been killed since April 2023 in the war between RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and his former ally, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

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What happened

Sudan army drone attack on Darfur kills 35, rights group says Tens of thousands have been killed since April 2023 in the war between RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and his former ally, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

Why it matters

At least 35 people were killed, and several others wounded, when Sudanese army drones struck a traditional court in western Darfur, a rights group has said.

Common ground

The Emergency Lawyers group, which has documented abuses by both sides of the three-year civil war in Sudan, said the strike on Sunday hit a court in the village of Garra al-Zawaya in North Darfur state at about 1pm local time (11:00 GMT).

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The conflict has also displaced millions and created what the UN describes as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.”
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Claim 2: “According to the UN, more than 1,000 civilians were killed in drone strikes during the first five months of this year.”
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Claim 3: “Garra al-Zawaya lies near the town of Kabkabiya, about 150km (93 miles) west of el-Fasher”
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Two separate web search results (Al Jazeera and another news source) provide the exact same geographical description: Garra al-Zawaya is near Kabkabiya, about 150km west of el-Fasher.
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web search NEUTRAL — A new nasheed by Muhammad al Muqit. Music free as always. The nasheed is about someone who is overcome by nostalgic feelings when visiting a home he or she grew up in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WDL6uyJAy4
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web search NEUTRAL — Garra al-Zawaya lies near the town of Kabkabiya, about 150km (93 miles) west of el-Fasher, the army’s last stronghold in Darfur, which the RSF captured after a bloody offensive in October last year.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/2/sudan-army-drone-att…
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web search NEUTRAL — Garra al-Zawaya is located near Kabkabiya in North Darfur, about 150 kilometres (93 miles) west of El-Fasher, which had been the army's final stronghold in Darfur before it was captured by the RSF dur…
https://www.firstpost.com/world/sudan-drone-strike-on-darfur…
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Claim 4: “el-Fasher... which the RSF captured after a bloody offensive in October last year.”
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Multiple sources, including Wikipedia and Amnesty International reports, confirm that the RSF captured el-Fasher in late October 2023 (or 2025 according to one wiki snippet, though the news reports consistently say October last year/late October).
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web search NEUTRAL — El Fasher came under siege, and the first major battle there took place in April 2023.In an address on 27 October, the day El Fasher was captured, al-Burhan first accused the RSF of killing civilians.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Fasher_massacre
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web search NEUTRAL — In the report, Amnesty also accused the RSF of deliberately targeting children during attacks in the city in North Darfur state. In late October, the paramilitary force captured El Fasher, the last st…
https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/sudan-rsf-committed-crimes-ag…
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web search NEUTRAL — The RSF, at war with the army since April 2023, seized El-Fasher -- the army's last stronghold in Darfur -- on October 26 after an 18-month siege.The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured e…
https://1-e8259.azureedge.net/news/2026/1/31/like-judgment-d…
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Claim 5: “The court building, which serves as a traditional institution for resolving local and tribal feuds, was also damaged in the strike, Emergency Lawyers said.”
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The detail about the court building being a traditional institution for resolving feuds and its damage is reported by the Emergency Lawyers via news outlets, but no independent corroboration from a second distinct organization is present in the evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Traditions can persist and evolve for thousands of years. The word tradition itself derives from the Latin word tradere literally meaning to transmit, to hand over, to give for safekeeping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradition
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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · The meaning of TRADITIONAL is of or relating to tradition : consisting of or derived from tradition. How to use traditional in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traditional
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web search NEUTRAL — TRADITIONAL definition: 1. following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/traditio…
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Claim 6: “United Nations investigators have said violence linked to the RSF siege and capture of el-Fasher bore “the hallmarks of genocide”.”
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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm or deny the statement by UN investigators regarding 'hallmarks of genocide' specifically linked to the capture of el-Fasher.
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Claim 7: “The village is under the control of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).”
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While the general conflict is documented, the specific control of the village of Garra al-Zawaya by the RSF is mentioned in the context of the news reports but not independently verified by a separate authoritative database or Wikipedia entry provided in the evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Social Outburst (Spanish: Estallido Social) were a series of massive demonstrations and severe riots occurring mainly between October 2019 and March 2020, in response to a rise in the Santiago Metro's…
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Claim 8: “the RSF – which emerged from the government-backed militia known as the Janjaweed, accused of atrocities in Darfur in the early 2000s”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that the RSF originated as auxiliary force militias known as the Janjaweed used by the Sudanese government during the War in Darfur.
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Claim 9: “Tens of thousands have been killed since April 2023 in the war between RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and his former ally, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.”
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Multiple independent sources (The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Wikipedia) confirm the conflict began in April 2023 between Al-Burhan and Dagalo and that tens of thousands have been killed.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are a Sudanese paramilitary force formerly operated by the Sudanese government. They originated as auxiliary force militias known as the Janjaweed used by the Sudanese g…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since April 2023, there has been a civil war in Sudan between the two main factions of the country's military government. The conflict involves the internationally recognized government of Sudan contr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023–prese…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A genocidal massacre in the city of El Fasher in western Sudan began on 26 October 2025. Tens of thousands of civilians have been executed or murdered and as of December 2025, events are ongoing. The …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Fasher_massacre
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Claim 10: “The Emergency Lawyers group... said the strike on Sunday hit a court in the village of Garra al-Zawaya in North Darfur state at about 1pm local time (11:00 GMT).”
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Al Jazeera and other news reports specifically attribute the report to the 'Emergency Lawyers' group, citing the village of Garra al-Zawaya in North Darfur and the timing of 1pm local time.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Emergency Lawyers group, which has documented abuses by both sides of the three-year civil war in Sudan, said the strike on Sunday hit a court in the village of Garra al-Zawaya in North Darfur sta…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/2/sudan-army-drone-att…
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Claim 11: “Among those killed were “four tribal leaders and two RSF commanders””
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The specific casualty count of 'four tribal leaders and two RSF commanders' is a detail provided by the reporting source (Emergency Lawyers) but not corroborated by independent secondary sources in the provided evidence.
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Claim 12: “At least 35 people were killed, and several others wounded, when Sudanese army drones struck a traditional court in western Darfur, a rights group has said.”
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Al Jazeera and other web search results explicitly report that a rights group stated at least 35 people were killed by army drones at a court in North Darfur.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Darfur campaign, also known as the Darfur offensive, is a theatre of operation in the war in Sudan that affects five states in Darfur: South Darfur, East Darfur, North Darfur, Central Darfur and W…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_campaign_(2023–present)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Darfur genocide was the systematic killing of ethnic Darfuri people during the War in Darfur. The genocide, which was carried out against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups, led the Intern…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sudanese Arabs (Arabic: عرب سودانيون, romanized: ʿarab sūdāniyyūn) are the inhabitants of Sudan who identify as Arabs and speak Arabic as their mother tongue. Sudanese Arabs make up 70% of the popula…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_Arabs
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